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Cassini spies wave rattling jet stream on Jupiter

(PhysOrg.com) -- New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere and influences the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

No-glasses 3-D technology to showcase at CES 2012

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stream TV Networks plans to introduce a line of products that feature 3-D viewing without glasses. What’s so special about its announcement, on top of scores of 3-D-without-glasses announcements? ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (32) | comments 24 | with audio podcast report

What's down with the Sun? Major drop in solar activity predicted

(PhysOrg.com) -- A missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near the poles say that our Sun is heading for a rest period even as it is acting up for the first time in years, according to scientists ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (28) | comments 114 | with audio podcast

Warm water causes extra-cold winters in northeastern North America and Northeastern Asia

If you're sitting on a bench in New York City's Central Park in winter, you're probably freezing. After all, the average temperature in January is 32 degrees Fahrenheit. But if you were just across the pond ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 57 | with audio podcast

Researchers use 'nano-Velcro' technology to improve capture of circulating cancer cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Circulating tumor cells, which play a crucial role in cancer metastasis, have been known to science for more than 100 years, and researchers have long endeavored to track and capture them. ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bacteria in mouth and gut also found in arteries

(PhysOrg.com) -- The same types of bacteria found in arterial plaque, which causes atherosclerosis, are also found in the mouth and gut, according to the first general survey of all bacteria found in plaques ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Long expected, YouTube wades into live streaming

(AP) -- YouTube is making its long expected foray into live streaming by launching an experimental trial with four new media partners.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 13, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Landslides linked to plate tectonics create the steepest mountain terrain

Some of the steepest mountain slopes in the world got that way because of the interplay between terrain uplift associated with plate tectonics and powerful streams cutting into hillsides, leading to erosion ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Climate scientists discover new weak point of the Antarctic ice sheet

The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, may start to melt rapidly in this century and no longer act as a barrier for ice streams draining the Antarctic Ice Sheet. These predictions ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (20) | comments 43 | with audio podcast

Magnetic nanochain detonates chemo barrage inside tumors

Medicine-toting nanochains slip into tumors and explode a chemotherapy drug into hard-to-reach cores of cancer, engineers and scientists at Case Western Reserve University report.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Why letting salmon escape could benefit bears and fishers

New research suggests that allowing more Pacific salmon to spawn in coastal streams will not only benefit the natural environment, including grizzly bears, but could also lead to more salmon in the ocean and ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Lake researchers find fishermen a good resource for limnology

(Phys.org) -- By studying lakes and streams, limnologists are able to learn how water systems work which is vital in a world where human population increases cause such resources to become ever more valuable. ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Quantum dots provide quantitative profile of pancreatic cancer biomarkers on single cells

(Phys.org) -- With the aid of a novel set of lipid-coated, targeted quantum dots, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a method for quantifying multiple specific biomarkers on the surfaces of individual ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NASA launches suborbital rockets from Virginia

Milky white chemical clouds were briefly visible in much of the night sky along the Eastern seaboard on Tuesday after NASA launched a series of rockets to study the jet stream at the edge of the earth's atmosphere.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Mathematical methods help predict movement of oil and ash following environmental disasters

When oil started gushing into the Gulf of Mexico in late April 2010, friends asked George Haller whether he was tracking its movement. That's because the McGill engineering professor has been working for years ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast